Both EE and Vodafone are experiencing a nationwide outage right now, and we're getting to the bottom of what's happened.

The company's Coverage and Network Status checker page is inaccessible, with a pop-up informing people about the ongoing network issues — and directing them back to the Three homepage.

Keep an eye on the network service checker Should you be impacted and wish to ascertain whether problems are still present in your location, Three UK does offer a Network status checker. Visit ...

Vodafone is one of the UK's largest mobile network providers and provides mobile services to 18.64 million customers as well as broadband to a further 1.38 million.

EE does have a network status checker, but it's not all that useful: you can only search by postcode or street address, rather than checking for outages that cover entire countries.

We contacted Three UK about the issues and a spokesperson told us: "A number of customers may be experiencing issues with our network. We are aware of what the issue is and our engineers are ...